Religious leaders in South Korea will visit North Korea next month to hold a joint event for peace with their counterparts in the communist country, a religious group said Friday.
Some 150 men from the South’s seven major religious groups, including Protestants, the Catholic Church and Buddhism, will cross the border to Mount Kumgang on the North’s east coast to hold the South-North Korean believers’ peace event from Nov. 9-10, according to the Korean Conference on Religion and Peace.
“During the event, they are to meet with dozens of officials from North Korean religious orders for prayer services and diverse events for friendship including hiking the mountain,” a KCRP official said.
Since earlier this year, the entity has been working to organize a joint event to pray for peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, he added.
If realized, South and North Korea’s religious leaders will meet for the first time since 2011 when a joint prayer meeting was held in Pyongyang.
“The upcoming event carries significance, as it is the first time under the current (Park Geun-hye) administration for this many people from the two Koreas to get together. It will help usher in inter-Korean reconciliation,” the official said. (Yonhap)
